Bat Manga Chip Kidd

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Bat manga chip kidd. The secret history of batman in japan is a 2008 book published by pantheon books subsidiary of random house in the united states. You see the book was designed edited by chip kidd but what he basically did was reprint some recently found japanese bat manga batman comic book stories that were created in the 1960s exclusively for the japanese market. Knopf kidd designs book. Now for those of you unfamiliar with this character he is a long lost batman villain that was brought back to life excuse the pun by chip kidds book bat manga.

Central to this was a manga comic by jiro kuwata which offers a particularly japanese view of batman and robin. Author designer and comic collector chip kidd has crafted one of the coolest careers in the world. Is simply one of the weirdest oddest and strangest books about comics to come out in recent years. It collects a japanese shonen manga adaptation of the american comic book series batman by jiro kuwata simply entitled batman and also includes photographs of vintage batman toys from japan.

Chip kidds new book is backwards. This book celebrated the 1960s artwork of the japanese manga artist jiro kuwata. The secret history of batman in japan 2008 chip kidd. Unfortunately for readers kidd privileges the mangas status as collectible artifact over its narrative and only two stories are presented in full the remaining episodes reprinted are incomplete parts of longer serials kidd apparently failed to contact shonen kings original japanese publisher whose archive might have been able to fill the gaps.

The batman manga included in bat manga. Okay its not exactly backwards but it reads back to front like japanese comics you know manga. Heres an older interview with chip kidd that was featured on the vice magazine website around the time of the publication of his bat manga. To put it even more succinctly bat manga.

The secret history of batman in japan book that was released in 2008 featuring the 1960s manga artwork of jiro kuwata. The secret history of batman in japan. The dc comics art of alex ross 2005 jack cole and plastic man. Chronicles and collects several batman.

As associate art director at publishing house alfred a. Kidd would stumble across an incomplete collection of kuwatas so called bat manga on a trip to japan before releasing the strips for an edited collection over ten years back. Dc comics home of the batman since 1939 more recently released a comprehensive collection across three paperback volumes which are well worth a read. The art of charles m.

Photos of 1960s japanese batman toys examples of batman work by other japanese artists and an interview with kuwata round out the book. Forms stretched to their limits 2001 co authored with art spiegelman.